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Retired Coast Guard Officer BA Geography living on the beautiful west coast of Canada on unceded Lekwungen/Songhees territory.
In addition to the hastags below my interests include #ClimateDenial #renewables #RenewableEnergy #EV #bcpoli #canada #SeaLevels #SeaLevelRise #Oceans #Nature #transition #energy #environment #fedi22 #ClimateChangeIsReal #Misinformation #Disinformation #space #astronomy #genealogy
“In the months to come, Conservative candidates, MPs and their party leader will take all kinds of conflicting, or tension-laden, positions because they want to win. But beneath the inconsistency will remain a drive to order the world according to their traditional norms and values and to preserve the standing of the powerful and the system that ensures their continued place in the world.” https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/03/06/What-Heck-Is-Ordered-Liberty/
What the Heck Is ‘Ordered Liberty’? Beware Poilievre’s Paradox | The Tyee

He says he’s for freedom. Except when he’s pushing state intrusion in citizens’ lives. There’s an Orwellian term for that.

The Tyee
“After decades of half-measures, procrastination and misinformation, the room for error in fighting climate change is long gone. To stave off catastrophe, everyone needs to do everything they can.” https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-2024-presidency-climate-change-rcna131928
A second Trump presidency would be catastrophic for the climate

If Trump wins, the loss of American leadership on climate change would ensure that the world blows past the threshold of calamity.

MSNBC
“The leaders of Hamas are cowards. They left us out in the open while they hide in hideouts. They destroyed us." https://themessenger.com/news/hamas-gaza-hospital-doctor-ahmed-kahlout-civilian-headquarters-hostages
Top Gaza Doctor Admits Hamas Used Hospital as Headquarters, Hid Hostage Inside

The director of a medical complex in northern Gaza has admitted, under interrogation, that the facility he ran was used by Hamas as a control center and a place to hide hostages.

The Messenger
#ClimateDeniers love touting lists of people (the vast majority of whom are woefully unqualified) who have signed on to pseudoscience as proof climate science is flawed. It seems we can but all of them to rest here and now. #ClimateChange #Climate https://futurism.com/the-byte/scientists-warn-climate-collapse-2100
15,000 Scientists Warn Society Could Collapse By 2100 Due to Climate Change

More than 15,000 scientists have signed onto a paper warning that the climate may collapse by the end of this century if we don't fix it now.

Futurism
"The truth is that we are shocked by the ferocity of the extreme weather events in 2023. We are afraid of the uncharted territory that we have now entered," #ClimateChange #ExistentialThreat #ClimateCrisis https://phys.org/news/2023-10-life-earth-existential-threat-climate.html
Life on Earth under 'existential threat': climate scientists

Climate change poses an "existential threat" to life on Earth, prominent scientists warned Tuesday, in an assessment on this year's avalanche of heat records and weather extremes that they said are hitting more ferociously than expected.

How criminalisation is being used to silence climate activists across the world

Guardian investigation finds growing number of countries passing anti-protest laws as part of playbook of tactics to intimidate people peacefully raising the alarm

The Guardian
“Canada doesn’t have the guts to take on fossil fuel companies and their powerful banking allies, is betting that the energy transition fails, or doesn’t believe it is the government’s job to align the economy of today with the demands of tomorrow. Whatever the rationale, we are a country at risk of being left behind.” #ClimateChange #ClimateDeadbeat #energytransition https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/10/26/news/canada-out-step-unstoppable-green-energy-transition-iea
Canada out of step with ‘unstoppable’ green energy transition: IEA

The International Energy Agency says the transition to renewables is not a matter of "if" but a question of "how soon?" The implication is enormous for Canada's fossil fuel obsession.

Canada's National Observer
> Last month, 29 of the world’s prominent scientists published a paper in the journal Science Advances showing conclusively that given the worsening of #ClimateChange, #BiodiversityLoss, and five other #GlobalEmergencies generated by #ndustrialSociety, “Earth is now well outside of the #SafeOperatingSpace for humanity.”...
And the world’s rich nations pretend nevertheless that everything is just fine.
https://factkeepers.com/the-scientist-rebellion-pursuing-climate-activism-despite-threats-of-violence-and-death/
#GoodScientists #SLO #ScientistRebellion #StanCox
/HT @OccuWorld
The Scientist Rebellion: Pursuing Climate Activism Despite Threats of Violence and Death - Factkeepers.com

Scientists are turning to nonviolent climate protest, including civil disobedience, to demand that governments take bold action to snuff out the use of oil, gas, and coal.

Factkeepers.com
I am doing a paper on the influence of the fossil fuel industry and climate denialism on primary and secondary schools, teachers and students (esp. non-US). If you have refs. please share; I am also interested in editorial cartoons on the topic.

The absurdity of climate denialism is not they deny a scientist ... they deny a science!

🌏🔥 #ClimateBrawl 🔥🌏